Interesting garden centre concept

by Amanda on December 15, 2010

With everything changing so much in the nursery world here in Australia, here’s something from the UK to check out:

Gardenerscentre is a collection of online boutique shops that offers a whole range of garden and gardening products as well as plants and garden furniture from the best international designers…so they say!

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Verge garden hits ABC website

by Amanda November 29, 2010

This is just in from the ABC website – a little coverage of the verge garden…

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Dogo Danel is here

by Amanda October 17, 2010

So you can’t see the fringe, which would make you realise how much this Pooch Poncho was inspired by Coco Chanel Fall 2011… Just imagine the fringe under all that neck fur, ok? This is Max (yep, it IS written there) modelling felted faux tartan a la Chanel. (I have yet to do the ‘classic [...]

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One potato, two potato, three potato, four…

by Amanda October 4, 2010

Yesterday M, Helen the Unbeliever and I dug up the potato bed and towers and unearthed the booty… Greek Helen has been very pessimistic about the fate of the potatoes. And apparently her husband’s friend has also been over, shaking his head at the slug-eaten leaves and absence of flowers and pronounced that no potatoes [...]

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Announcing the Great Doggie Rescue Felt-off

by Amanda October 1, 2010

Have I mentioned that I’m having a ball running my new business? And in the spirit of bringing everything together, today I’ve announced the great Doggie Rescue Felt-off! Find out more about: how Pooch Ponchos and business comes together, AND how  you can learn how to make a fabulously warm and funky felted Pooch Poncho [...]

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Be-calmed

by Amanda September 27, 2010

Where is the calm, I’m asking? Those reading regularly may have noticed that there’s not a lot that comes out on this blog about the topic ‘calm’. In fact, if you go an click the button calm at the top – yep, I dare you – then you’ll actually only find one entry there. It’s [...]

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Move over Smiths crisps

by Amanda September 26, 2010

Every tried kale chips? You really should give them a shot… I was chatting potato slugs and kale aphids with a real urban hippie friend last week and she asked if I’d ever tried kale chips. I haven’t, and in fact I’d never heard of it, but we do have lots of kale (if aphid [...]

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“Felt is the new blanky,” says Rocky

by Amanda September 25, 2010

The woolly warmth of felt seems to have real comfort properties…this story just in from Rambo’s mum Valerie who also has Rocky the cat… “Rocky has developed an affinity for felt. The other day, when he was ill, he sat on the camo one all day. Even when we took him off it, he would [...]

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Rambo super-model and the Dog-o-saurus

by Amanda September 24, 2010

After a re-make of the Dog-o-saurus for my dog Alfy shrank just a little too much, I thought immediately of another pint-sized dog who’d probably love it… Here’s Rambo in the Dog-o-saurus. (This is the art shot.) I can say with absolute confidence that dog mum Valerie will encounter two types of people when walking [...]

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It’s the year 2050…how big’s your home?

by Amanda September 22, 2010

In the year 2050 it’s likely that we’ll be living in increasingly tiny spaces. For designers entering Electrolux’s Design Lab 2010 the challenge was  how do you fit “all mod cons” into an apartment that might be no bigger than a boxing ring? The undergraduate and graduate industrial design students currently enrolled at a school [...]

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